Monday, September 1, 2008

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is one the most sought after film actors in Hollywood. With ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’(2005) she touched the prized 20 million dollar per movie mark also shared by actors like Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts. Apart from histrionic talents, this luscious beauty is known for her exotic looks, full lips, numerous humanitarian works, tattoos and wild child image. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lisa Rowe in the movie
‘Girl, Interrupted.’On August 11, 2005, King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia by his decree awarded her a citizenship in honor of her social work in the country. She is also the UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Angelina Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are, actors Jon Voight and American born Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset. As a child Angelina dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing ‘Gia’, she did not complete her studies.
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children in Washington, D.C. is an organization that provides free legal aid to children who prior to this had no legal representation. Jolie donated $500,000 to the center which will help keep it afloat for the first two years of its operation. Actively into modeling and appearing in music videos, Jolie had not got a hit for quite sometime until ‘Mr & Mrs Smith’, a spy comedy she starred with Brad Pitt. Brad’s crumbling marriage and subsequent separation with Jennifer Aniston sparked rumors about an affair between these two most photogenic people in Hollywood. However these proved good for the publicity of the film.

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